MAS.930.a

Description

Scope and content : Ch. 00481. Two frs. of silk brocade, woven with single warp and double weft; cf. Ch. 00170, etc. Warp: a fine light green twisted yarn, forming surface of ground, which is woven in small twill. Weft: a broader untwisted yarn, cream and brown, cream and orange (faded), or cream and dark blue, according to line of pattern. This consists of six or twelve-petalled rosettes, 2″ × 2½″ in diam., and 1¼″ apart horizontally, set out in close rows, diagonally, with a ring of small starlike eight-petalled flowers surrounding each. These rings touch adjacent rings at their angles, and thus formed a light hexagonal network between the large rosettes. The latter were blue, brown, and orange in successive rows; their outlines and veining, and petals of small flowers, being woven always in cream, while centres of small flowers are of same colour as large rosettes adjoining. The shape of the latter varied in alternate rows. The largest fr. of rosette preserved has an inner series of trumpet-shaped trefoil petals, and an outer series of wide trilobate petals with smaller rounded petal-tip appearing between each pair. The edge of rosettes in adjoining rows show, however, only plain pointed petal-tips, prob. twelve to the rosette. [Ser]